Test 3 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

If American peoples had lived for centuries with smallpox, what would most likely have been different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American peoples, smallpox · What happens: live, be

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 lived	mark
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peoples	amod
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 centuries	case
7	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 smallpox	case
9	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 different	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 different	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 different	aux
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 likely	advmod
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 different	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 different	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 different	cop
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smallpox	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	American peoples				century	with smallpox	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with smallpox=Location
2	is	would · perfect	smallpox					different, likely property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Columbus would have turned back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would · perfect	Columbus						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing at all would have changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 changed	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 changed	aux
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would · perfect	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Far fewer would have died after 1492

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 died	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 1492	case
7	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	fewer				after 1492		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Europeans would have caught smallpox instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europeans	european	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 smallpox	amod
5	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Europeans	caught smallpox				instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smallpox=Patient
2	catch	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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